On Sunday 19 March 2006 13:55, Holly Bostick wrote: > That's what I would have thought, too. But frankly, it seems too much > maintenance to me, since as soon as the versions go out of sync, then > you're likely to have problems that are difficult to track down. > > I have no problem with two users from different distros having their > /home folder on the same partition (in fact, my Gentoo install and my > SuSE install share a /home partition), but I wouldn't myself have the > two users merged that way across two Linux distros. I admit I did do > something similar when I had a massive multiboot (5 Linux distros, 2 > Windows installs), for relatively easy compatibility with the shared > Windows partitions, but even then, every user had their own /home > folder, they just had the same UID and a shared GID (which I made the > same on all related distros). But then again, I don't store things "in" > my /home folder; I store them on their own partitions that are linked > into my home folder, so it's not as if it's a "space saver" for me to > have two separate distros using the same /home/username, and since I see > it as a relatively dangerous pain-in-the-butt, I don't do it.
well I did it once (twoce?), back when I used suse and tried some other stuff. I even caried the suse /home with my one and only user to slackware and later gentoo. I was just carefull to give my user always the same gid/uid and it worked hassle free. But it was not a real 'sharing' more a 'take over to the next distribution'. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
